B- Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / divorce / North-Carolina / Post WWII / single father / Small Town Romance / teacher / teacher heroineNo Comments
She wants to fade away. He can’t possibly let her. Elizabeth arrives in small, Southern Bryeton to teach first grade in 1948, hiding a painful secret that haunts her. She doesn’t count on falling for Jake, a WWII veteran struggling to raise his young son after his wife abandons them ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsBollywood / divorce / family relationships / First-Person / Indian American / Magical Realism / middle grade / POC / POC author / self discoveryNo Comments
Bollywood takes over in this contemporary, magical middle grade novel about an Indian American girl whose world turns upside down when she involuntarily starts bursting into glamorous song-and-dance routines during everyday life. You know how in Bollywood when people are in love, they sing and dance from the mountaintops? Eleven-year-old ... more >
B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / actors / codes / dance / divorce / England / film adaptation / historical paranormal / Jayne / lawyer / law related / medieval / non-fiction / Paris / pilot / police / Reading lists / science / War / Military / World War II22 Comments
Fitzempress’ Law by Diana Norman Three modern young people commit a crime against an old woman who sends them back through time to the time of King Henry II (known as Fitzempress because he was the son of Empress Matilda) where they must solve serious personal problems by making use ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / Avon / divorce / Erotic-Romance / Google / Harry-Potter / J.K. Rowling / marriage / tech19 Comments
The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers’ wages – This story provides some of the detail around a class action lawsuit filed against more than 100,000 Silicon Valley tech workers, whose salaries were artificially suppressed to the tune of $9 billion. Apple, Google, Adobe, ... more >
B+ Reviewscollege / divorce / New Adult / rock band / self-published1 Comments
Dear Jean Haus: I purchased this book sight unseen during an after Christmas sale on Amazon. It had quite a few positive reviews and something most band romances seem to neglect: a female actually in the band instead of just sleeping with someone in the band. At the sale price, ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsalcoholism / bullying / Contemporary / divorce / Little Brown / Young-Adult13 Comments
Dear Ms. Keplinger, I think you’re one of the more interesting contemporary YA authors to be published in recent years. There’s an authenticity to your narrative voice that’s difficult to match. Despite their flaws, I enjoyed your previous two novels, The DUFF and Shut Out, so I snatched up your ... more >